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Boston Globe
09-03-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Mikaela Shiffrin sets World Cup podiums record with third place in slalom won by Katharina Truppe
🇦🇹Truppe earns maiden win as Shiffrin🇺🇸beats Stenmark's podiums record! What a race!⛷️ Watch the highlights here: — FIS Alpine (@fisalpine) 'Katharina Day!' Shiffrin said in the finish area as she hugged the two racers who beat her. 'I actually feel pretty good about it,' Shiffrin said of her fifth slalom race in her comeback from a serious crash in November. 'I maybe wasn't always perfect but I was pushing really hard.' Shiffrin's 156th top-3 result in her World Cup career broke a tie with Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark. Shiffrin also took the all-time wins record from Stenmark and now has 100 to his 86. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Mikaela Shiffrin 🇺🇸 makes history today! 🏆 With her podium finish, she breaks Stenmark's record, becoming the athlete with the most World Cup podiums of all time! 🔥 — FIS Alpine (@fisalpine) Advertisement Truppe now has one from her 181st World Cup start, though she has three championship medals including the team event gold at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. 'It's just: 'Wow.' I'm a little bit speechless,' said Truppe, who had been sixth-fastest in the morning run, trailing Shiffrin by 0.91. 'First victory, it's crazy. I will enjoy it and soak up all this emotion.' Both Truppe and Shiffrin are aged 29 and won slalom bronze medals at the junior world championships though their careers were on different trajectories. Shiffrin won her medal aged 15 in 2011 and already had two World Cup slalom titles and Olympic gold before Truppe got her junior worlds medal in 2015. Shiffrin needed to win Sunday to earn 100 race points and stay in contention — though only just – for a ninth career season-long slalom title. She missed four slalom races while recovering from her physical and psychological injuries. 'I'm still trying to get the repetition back. I just have to keep practicing it,' she said. With Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova skipping the entire season to recover from a knee injury, the door opened for a new World Cup title winner. The World Cup season-ending last slalom is at Sun Valley, Idaho, on March 27 with four skiers ahead of Shiffrin and within 100 points of the lead to lift the crystal globe trophy. Advertisement Title-chasing contenders Zrinka Ljutic and Camille Rast, the world championships gold medalist last month, both were below their best form Sunday and placed 10th and 11th, respectively. Ahead of going to the United States, the 21-year-old Ljutic leads Rast in the slalom standings by 41 points and will win the title with a top-three result. Liensberger, the 2021 champion, and Rast's Swiss teammate Wendy Holdener also could win. Shiffrin said she plans to train in Europe before the trip across seven time zones, to the Idaho resort that last staged World Cup races in 1977. 'There's certainly some travel challenges. It's a really long distance,' she said. 'I guess one more race this season for me but I'm looking forward to it.'
NBC News
09-03-2025
- Sport
- NBC News
Mikaela Shiffrin sets World Cup podiums record taking 3rd place in slalom race
ARE, Sweden — Mikaela Shiffrin set an all-time World Cup record Sunday with her 156th podium finish though she let victory slip away in a slalom. Racing through steadily falling snow with a first-run lead, Shiffrin was only 25th-fastest in the second run to finish in third place, 0.19 seconds behind surprise winner Katharina Truppe. Katharina Liensberger placed second, trailing 0.05 behind her Austria teammate, whose first career World Cup win was earned at age 29. 'Katharina Day!' Shiffrin said in the finish area as she hugged the two racers who beat her. 'I actually feel pretty good about it,' Shiffrin said of her fifth slalom race in her comeback from a serious crash in November. 'I maybe wasn't always perfect but I was pushing really hard.' Shiffrin's 156th top-3 result in her World Cup career broke a tie with Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark. Shiffrin also took the all-time wins record from Stenmark and now has 100 to his 86. Truppe now has one from her 181st World Cup start, though she has three championship medals including the team event gold at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. 'It's just: 'Wow.' I'm a little bit speechless,' said Truppe, who had been sixth-fastest in the morning run, trailing Shiffrin by 0.91. 'First victory, it's crazy. I will enjoy it and soak up all this emotion.' Both Truppe and Shiffrin are aged 29 and won slalom bronze medals at the junior world championships though their careers were on different trajectories. Shiffrin won her medal aged 15 in 2011 and already had two World Cup slalom titles and Olympic gold before Truppe got her junior worlds medal in 2015. Shiffrin needed to win Sunday to earn 100 race points and stay in contention — though only just — for a ninth career season-long slalom title. She missed four slalom races while recovering from her physical and psychological injuries. 'I'm still trying to get the repetition back. I just have to keep practicing it,' she said. With Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova skipping the entire season to recover from a knee injury, the door opened for a new World Cup title winner. The World Cup season-ending last slalom is at Sun Valley, Idaho, on March 27 with four skiers ahead of Shiffrin and within 100 points of the lead to lift the crystal globe trophy. Title-chasing contenders Zrinka Ljutic and Camille Rast, the world championships gold medalist last month, both were below their best form Sunday and placed 10th and 11th, respectively. Ahead of going to the United States, the 21-year-old Ljutic leads Rast in the slalom standings by 41 points and will win the title with a top-three result. Liensberger, the 2021 champion, and Rast's Swiss teammate Wendy Holdener also could win. Shiffrin said she plans to train in Europe before the trip across seven time zones, to the Idaho resort that last staged World Cup races in 1977. 'There's certainly some travel challenges. It's a really long distance,' she said. 'I guess one more race this season for me but I'm looking forward to it.'
The Guardian
09-03-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Mikaela Shiffrin sets all-time World Cup podium record but lets win slip away
Mikaela Shiffrin set an all-time World Cup record on Sunday with her 156th podium finish though she let victory slip away in the slalom in Are, Sweden. Racing through steadily falling snow with a first-run lead, Shiffrin was only 25th-fastest in the second run to finish in third place, 0.19 seconds behind surprise winner Katharina Truppe. Katharina Liensberger placed second, trailing 0.05 behind her Austrian teammate, whose first career World Cup win was earned at the age of 29. 'Katharina Day!' Shiffrin said in the finish area as she hugged the two racers who beat her. 'I actually feel pretty good about it,' Shiffrin said of her fifth slalom race since her comeback from a serious crash in November. 'I maybe wasn't always perfect but I was pushing really hard.' Shiffrin's 156th top-three finish in her World Cup career broke a tie with Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark. Shiffrin also took the all-time wins record from Stenmark and has 100 victories to his 86. Truppe has one win from her 181 World Cup starts, though she has three championship medals including the team event gold at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. 'It's just: 'Wow.' I'm a little bit speechless,' said Truppe, who had been sixth-fastest in the morning run, trailing Shiffrin by 0.91. 'First victory, it's crazy. I will enjoy it and soak up all this emotion.' Shiffrin needed to win on Sunday to earn 100 race points and stay in contention for a ninth career season-long slalom title. She missed four slalom races while recovering from her physical and psychological injuries sustained in November. 'I'm still trying to get the repetition back. I just have to keep practicing it,' she said. With Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova skipping the entire season to recover from a knee injury, the door opened for a new World Cup title winner. The World Cup season-ending last slalom is at Sun Valley, Idaho, on 27 March with four skiers ahead of Shiffrin and within 100 points of the lead to lift the crystal globe trophy. Title-chasing contenders Zrinka Ljutic and Camille Rast, the world championships gold medalist last month, were below their best form on Sunday and placed 10th and 11th, respectively. The 21-year-old Ljutic leads Rast in the slalom standings by 41 points and will win the title with a top-three result at Sun Valley. Liensberger, the 2021 champion, and Rast's Swiss teammate Wendy Holdener could also win. Shiffrin said she plans to train in Europe before the trip across seven time zones to Idaho. 'There's certainly some travel challenges. It's a really long distance,' she said. 'I guess one more race this season for me but I'm looking forward to it.'
Reuters
09-03-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Truppe wins as Shiffrin sets World Cup podiums record
ARE, Sweden, March 9 (Reuters - Mikaela Shiffrin broke Ingemar Stenmark's Alpine skiing World Cup podium record with her 156th top-three placing in a slalom on Swedish snow on Sunday as Austria's Katharina Truppe celebrated her first victory. Truppe led Katharina Liensberger in an Austrian one-two in Are with American Shiffrin third after skiing fastest in the first leg and looking good for a record-extending 101st career World Cup win. Shiffrin went last in the second run and, with the piste rutted and bumpy, lost more than a second to Truppe to finish 0.19 adrift. The American's second-leg time was only the 25th fastest of the 30 runners. "First victory, it's crazy. I have goosebumps on my body," said Truppe, who was sixth after the first run but beat Liensberger by 0.05 for her first victory in 186 starts. The chase for the slalom crystal globe will go down to the final race of the season in Sun Valley, Idaho, on March 27 with Croatia's Zrinka Ljutic 41 points clear of Switzerland's Camille Rast. Liensberger is third, 51 points off the lead, with Switzerland's Wendy Holdener also in mathematical contention but 96 points behind Ljutic. Swedish great Stenmark took his 155 World Cup podiums, including 86 wins, between 1974 and 1989. Shiffrin broke Stenmark's wins record in 2023 after surpassing compatriot Lindsey Vonn's female best of 82 victories in January of that year. Shiffrin, who will be 30 on Thursday, celebrated her 100th World Cup win in Sestriere, Italy, last month. She is not in the running for the slalom World Cup title after two months out recovering from a giant slalom fall in November.
